Consider yourself (and your humble fellow journeyer) reminded.
#Remind me who i am trial#
No matter what difficulty or trial you might encounter this week I pray that you will take a moment and remember who you are. When you are a follower of Christ here a just things that are true of you.Īdopted. Jason Gray sings in the chorus to “Tell me once again who I am to You”. Remembering and reminding myself and others who we are. I am becoming an Ephesians 1 to 3 Christian. I looked at behavior and judged that…often sinfully. I have spent too many years being an Ephesians 4 to 6 Christian. He NEVER wrote a word about changing their behavior until chapter four! But he showed his love by not lecturing but by reminding them who they were….adopted, redeemed, and sealed. New life has begun.Įven though the Ephesians had messed up royally in how they were living out their faith Paul did not condemn them as he began his letter. All of the guilt and shame and sin that used to define you are no longer true. We find it difficult to believe that we are changed because many times when we fail the old tapes are instantly cue up and start playing loudly:Īll of those accusations that Satan (and others who are quite happy to help) hurls your way are no longer true about you. But I would suggest that our spiritual identity is far more important and I am afraid we make it all too easy for the enemy to steal away it from us. I spend money and time and put lots of effort into protecting my financial and personal identity and certainly that is important. And so he goes about trying to “steal’ my identity in Christ. Satan hates that message of hope and change. I am righteous because of Him and not because of trying to do more right “stuff.” I am a saint and there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus. The old life is gone a new life has begun!” (2 Corinthians 5:17)īecause of Christ I have a new identity. “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. I had read this verse from Paul’s second letter to the church at Corinth dozens of times:
But your actions tend to reflect who you believe you are. I had a really difficult time trusting my identity. That is what Jason Gray is asking God to do in his song. Rather, in the first three chapters, he talks about identity. What is wrong with you? Do you know how much I sacrificed for you?” But Paul doesn’t do that. “What are you thinking? I am so disappointed in you. Paul even calls them as saints for crying out loud! If I was writing that letter it would have had an entirely different tone. Yet the amazing thing to me is that the first three chapters never address their sin. Paul wrote a letter to address this sad turn of events. Things were a bit of a mess and the word came back that the old behaviors of rage, immorality, lying, stealing and gossip were resurfacing. Just a few short years after he left Paul received reports that those new hearts had reverted to old habits. Paul had spent a little over two years teaching and discipling the new believers in Ephesus. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is in play here. I have to be reminded constantly that to be effective in this journey you have to remember who you are in Christ. Jason Gray’s song is exactly what I needed for this week. The artist is Jason Gray and his song is called “Remind Me Who I Am”. Not because of the content but because of the appropriateness of the song for this week. When I fired up the iTunestoday the first song I heard made me chuckle.
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